Retrospective presentation of the next release of ReactOS

On September 7, 2016, around midnight Moscow time, the ReactOS team will demonstrate its “old” new release of the operating system. It is expected that various new breakthroughs or not so chips will be shown from the stage. Some of the information has already flowed to the media, but you hold on there, cook popcorn and rotten tomatoes.

On August 16, 2016, after three months of development, the release of the operating system ReactOS 0.4.2 took place, aimed at ensuring compatibility with Microsoft Windows programs and drivers. In the list of changes in the latest version there are more than 150 corrected errors.


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Unfortunately, your rebellious servant Jeditobe at the time of this joyful event was outside the zone of reliable Internet access ( in the vicinity of Pyatigorsk, and not in Bali, as someone thought ) and could not publish the news in a timely manner. However, it was decided to fill this annoying gap and place information simultaneously with other large companies on the same day.



As usual, most external dependencies were updated, such as Wine (Wine Staging 1.9.11 is used), FreeType, and the UniATA driver. Of the new products, it is worth noting support for reading partitions with ReiserFS and UFS file systems (FreeBSD) and the ability to install and use the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and 4.0 libraries. The distribution also includes the updated Windows drivers Ext2Fsd 0.66 and WinBtrfs 0.4. The unxutils toolkit was run.

Download distribution files here .

List of changes . List of known compatible programs .

What will happen next?

Among the features already implemented, but not included in release 0.4.2 , is the addition of support for the “net use” command, and the elimination of the problem that hampered the automatic update of the browser and the installation of large add-ons in Firefox, such as the FirefoxOS emulator . We will also please you with a fully functional Blender package:



As you have already noticed, releases began to go out much more often, about once every three months. The release of the next version, 0.4.3, is expected to be expected in late September or early October.

And it's all?

No, not all. The upcoming version 0.4.3 will also include the project's developments in the framework of the Google Summer of Code 2016 program, in which we have incredibly successfully participated this summer. But more about that next time. In the meantime, you can download a test build with an updated USB stack. Miracles are not worth the wait, but improvements are noticeable.

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